Wolf Quotes

“Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.” – Alfred Hitchcock

“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.” – Criss Jami

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.” – Farley Mowat

“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn’t stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one’s place in the world. To say ‘I am here.’ To say ‘I am.” – O.R. Melling

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.” – Angela Carter

“Throw me to the wolves & I’ll return leading the pack.” – Unknown

“I knew he wouldn’t come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn’t know how to begin to look.” – Maggie Stiefvater

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village – the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.” – Terry Pratchett

“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.” – George R.R. Martin

“There is no better way to know us/Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.” – Ted Hughes

“That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.” -George R.R. Martin

“Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth.” – Rolf Peterson

“We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background.” – April Genevieve Tucholke

“The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.” – Jacob Grimm

“So she looked upon the wolves, who were dwindling in number, and back at the humans who no longer cared for their own, and combined their spirits. She took the loyal, protective, possessive natures of the wolf and took the intelligence, emotions, and love of the human and brought them together. She designed us to be a pack.” – Quinn Loftis

“The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.” – Quinn Loftis

“Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two.” – Amanda Mosher

“Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.” – Munia Khan

“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.” – Anthony Marra

“The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.” – Jodi Picoult

“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.” – Margaret Atwood

“The wolf is an intelligent and cultural animal. Its behaviour is not just imprinted in its genes, but is also taught from mothers to pups according to circumstance. It knows that a man with a pitchfork is dangerous, and that a man with a gun is even more so. The wolf was different once, and was more active during the day. Its [modern] nocturnal activities are an adaptation against danger.

“The connection between Mongols and the wolf is… interwoven with religion and folklore. In the Shamanic culture, the wolf is connected with mountain spirits. Children’s fairy tales are often filled with references to the clever and mysterious wolf. With all these connections, I assumed it would make sense if Mongols had a bit of wolf blood in them. And perhaps they do. A legend is told about a blue wolf that mated with a red deer. It was their offspring that spawned the tribe of Chingis Khan. Since Chingis is considered the father of the nation, it’s no wonder why the wolf is held in such awe.” – Michael Kohn

Wolf Proverbs

“If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.” – Lithuanian

“It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.” – French

“Talk of the wolf and you see his tail.” – French

“‘Tis a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor.” – French

“If the wolf had stayed in the wood there would have been no hue and cry after him.” – German

“If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.” – German